Birinus
Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy; Anglican Communion | |
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Attributes | Bishop, sometimes baptising a king |
Patronage | Berkshire; Dorchester |
Shrines | Dorchester Abbey, now destroyed. Small parts survive. Modern replica now in place. (Or Winchester Cathedral, now destroyed.) |
Birinus (also Berin, Birin; c. 600 – 3 December 649 or 650) was the first
Life and ministry
After
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Birinus is said to have been active in establishing churches in Wessex:[9] foundations ascribed to him include St Mary's in Reading,[10] St Peter and St Paul, Checkendon, near Reading,[11] and the first church at Ipsden, built about two miles from the present church.[12] Birinus baptised Cynegils's son Cwichelm (died 636) in 636[13] and grandson Cuthred (died 661) in 639, to whom he stood as godfather.[14]
Birinus died in Dorchester on 3 December in 649 or 650.[15]
Veneration
Birinus'
A small number of Church of England parish churches are dedicated to Birinus, including those at Berinsfield in Oxfordshire and Redlynch in Wiltshire. The Catholic church in Dorchester, one of the first built after the restoration of the hierarchy[22] by Pope Pius IX, is also dedicated to Birinus.
See also
- Church of St Birinus, Morgan's Vale
- St Birinus School (Didcot)
- Lantfred wrote a vita
References
Citations
- ^ Powicke & Fryde 1961, p. 219.
- ^ Walsh 2007, p. 102.
- ^ Coles 1981, p. 6.
- ^ Bede 1969, 3.7; Thompson 1886.
- ^ a b Kirby 2000, p. 38.
- ^ Jones, Terry H. "Birinus". Patron Saints Index. Catholic Community Forum. Liturgical Publications of St. Louis. Archived from the original on 13 August 2007. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ Thompson 1886.
- ^ Kirby 2000, p. 51.
- ^ Bede 1969, 3.7.
- ^ "Holy Hierarch Birinus", Orthodox Christianity
- ^ "History of St Peter & St Paul, Checkendon". Langtree Team Ministry. Archived from the original on 10 June 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "History of St Mary the Virgin, Ipsden". Langtree Team Ministry. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ Bately 1986, an. 636; Davis 1912, p. 57.
- ^ Bately 1986, an. 639; Davis 1912, p. 57.
- ^ a b Livingstone 2013, p. 68.
- ^ "St. Birinus". Catholic Online. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ Kommodatos 1985.
- ^ Farmer 2011, p. 53.
- ^ "The Calendar". The Church of England. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ Church of England Liturgical Commission 2000, p. 13.
- ^ Kirby 2000, p. 49.
- ^ "Saint Birinus Catholic Church". Dorchester on Thames, England: Saint Birinus Catholic Church. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
Works cited
- ISBN 978-0-85991-103-0.
- ISBN 978-0-19-822202-6.
- Church of England Liturgical Commission (2000). ISBN 978-0-7151-2000-2.
- Coles, R. J. (1981). Southampton's Historic Buildings. City of Southampton Society.
- Davis, A. C. (1912). "Birinus". In LCCN 13001314. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- Farmer, David (2011). The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (rev. 5th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1995-9660-7.
- Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-24211-0.
- Kommodatos, Christophoros (1985). οἱ Ἅγιοι τῶν Βρετανικῶν Νήσων [The Saints of the British Isles] (in Greek). Athens: Semandro.
- Livingstone, E. A., ed. (2013). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-965962-3.
- Powicke, F. Maurice; Fryde, E. B. (1961). Handbook of British Chronology (2nd ed.). London: Royal Historical Society.
- Thompson, E. Maunde (1886). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. New York: Macmillan and Co. p. 80.
- Walsh, Michael (2007). A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West. London: Burns & Oats. ISBN 978-0-86012-438-2.
Further reading
- Ford, David Nash (2001). "St. Birinus (c. 600–649)". Royal Berkshire History. Wokingham, England: Nash Ford Publishing. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
- Kimball, Charles L. (1907). Herbermann, Charles G.; Pace, Edward A.; Pallen, Condé B.; Shahan, Thomas J.; Wynne, John J. (eds.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Encyclopedia Press (published 1913). p. 578. . In
- Love, Rosalind C., ed. (1996). Three Eleventh-Century Anglo-Latin Saints' Lives: Vita S. Birini, Vita Et Miracula S. Kenelmi and Vita S. Rumwoldi. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISSN 0474-974X.